posterity

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And for posterity, his “Experimental Telephone” can be found at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American as an artifact of American enterprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Videos on social media and YouTube show people tagging empty storefronts, skateboarding or riding bicycles indoors and urban explorers touring the abandoned spaces for posterity or to look for signs of paranormal activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

When Deffand was asked to contribute her letters to Voltaire to a posthumous edition of his correspondence, she refused; she did not want to give posterity “any occasion for myself to be spoken of.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

But praise was poured upon the humble pint's place in the nation's history, cultural life and language, and the government moved to ensure the measurement was preserved for posterity.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

“Reams of ‘work-sheets’ were destroyed in the desire not to bury completely all posterity under a mammoth paper mausoleum,” she later joked.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield